Digital Platforms Engineer

Central Ohio Transit Authority•Columbus, OH

About The Position

COTA's Digital Platforms Engineer designs, supports, and continuously improves enterprise digital platforms that enable public web services, internal collaboration, secure content delivery, and API-enabled integrations. The role provides business-facing technical leadership across cota.com, WordPress, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, cloud-hosted applications, and integration services. It ensures platforms are reliable, secure, accessible, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, governance, cybersecurity, and operational standards. The position performs duties that advance COTA's Strategic Plan and reflect the organization's core values of safety, empowerment, accountability, teamwork, and service, in support of its mission of Moving Every Life Forward.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
At least five years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Systems Administrator.
Experience or skills with the platforms, technologies, and tools stated in the job responsibilities, including WordPress, AWS, Linux, Git, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, and Power Automate.

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified Developer Associate certification or equivalent certification.
WordPress Development Certification or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Manage cota.com and related web platforms to ensure secure, reliable, and continuous operations.
Develop and maintain headless WordPress solutions using Gatsby, ReactJS, Node.js, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL.
Apply secure development and WordPress hardening practices to reduce platform vulnerabilities.
Maintain reliable web application infrastructure, including the WordPress-based cota.com platform.
Optimize accessibility and discoverability through meta tags, canonical tags, robot directives, and XML maps.
Promote platform security, scalability, and reliability by applying industry best practices.
Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, KMS, VPC, and Route 53.
Enforce AWS security, networking, and compliance standards across cloud environments.
Optimize cloud application performance, security, cost efficiency, and reliability using CloudWatch.
Manage, secure, and troubleshoot Linux systems, including Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
Engineer and automate Agile continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Git.
Govern SharePoint permissions, configurations, integrations, security, compliance, and enterprise standards.
Organize SharePoint site collections, metadata, Teams channels, and repositories for enterprise collaboration.
Engineer SharePoint solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Implement scalable, cloud-native solutions that deliver highly available, high-performing, and resilient products.
Conduct access reviews, audits, updates, and documentation to support secure collaboration.
Evaluate emerging digital tools that improve efficiency, innovation, and enterprise value.
Administer and support WordPress, SharePoint, and Power Apps platforms.
Document web systems, integrations, plugins, and platform dependencies for continuity.
Maintain regular, predictable, and punctual attendance.
Perform other duties as assigned.